2020 Medan mayoral election

The 2020 Medan mayoral election was held on 9 December 2020, as part of the 2020 simultaneous local elections in Indonesia. The mayoral election was contested between sitting acting mayor Akhyar Nasution and Bobby Nasution, son-in-law of President Joko Widodo.

2020 Medan mayoral election

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Registered	1,601,001[1]
Nominee Bobby Nasution Akhyar Nasution Party PDI-P Demokrat Running mate Aulia Rachman Salman Alfarisi Popular vote 393,533 342,580 Percentage 53.5%[2] 46.5%
Mayor before election Akhyar Nasution Demokrat Elected mayor Bobby Nasution PDI-P

Candidates

Two sets of candidates are running for the election. The previously elected mayor, Dzulmi Eldin, had been arrested on graft charges in October 2019.^[3]

• Bobby Nasution (PDI-P), property businessman and son-in-law of president Joko Widodo, with city councillor Aulia Rachman (Gerindra) as running mate,
• Akhyar Nasution (Demokrat), acting mayor of Medan and formerly elected as deputy mayor, with provincial legislator Salman Alfarisi (PKS) as running mate.

Akhyar was formerly a member of PDI-P, but left the party due to PDI-P's decision to nominate Bobby for the mayoral race. Outside of PDI-P and Gerindra, Bobby was also endorsed by PAN, Golkar, Nasdem, PSI, Hanura and PPP, while Akhyar was supported by just Demokrat and PKS.^[3]

Campaign

Two rounds of public debates between the candidates were held on 7 and 21 November 2020.^[4][5]